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Developmental changes in taste responses from glossopharyngeal nerve in sheep and comparisons with chorda tympani responses
(Elsevier, 1983-12)
To learn whether there are developmental changes in salt and acid taste responses from the posterior tongue, we recorded from the glossopharyngeal nerve, which innervates taste buds in circumvallate papillae, in sheep ...
Sexual Trauma, Substance Abuse, and Treatment Success in a Sample of African American Women Who Smoke Crack Cocaine
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship among sexual trauma, severity of substance use, and treatment success for African American women who smoke crack cocaine. Using a convenience sample of ...
Components of probability judgment accuracy: Individual consistency and effects of subject matter and assessment method
(Elsevier, 1987-10)
An experiment is reported in which subjects assigned probabilities to the outcomes of basketball games and to the truth of general-knowledge items. Three different methods were used for eliciting subjects' probability ...
Value and uncertainty as weighting factors in impression formation
(Elsevier, 1985-01)
An experiment was conducted to compare mathematical models describing how people combine information to form an impression of another person. Subjects rated how much they would like stimulus persons described by one or two ...
Complexity of the self-schema and responses to disconfirming feedback
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-04)
This study focused on complexity of the self-schema as one factor that influences people's responses to social feedback that challenges their established view of self. Complexity refers to the number of independent attributes ...
Longitudinal patterns of care for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-10)
This study assessed patterns of mental health service use over time by patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — as compared with patients with schizophrenia and major depression — with emphasis on the persistence ...
A decision-making process for planning patient education
(Elsevier, 1984)
Health professionals tend to resist incorporating education into their patient-care activities despite increasing evidence that educating patients in self-care management can favorably influence health outcomes. More-over, ...
Cholecystokinin effects on feeding, glucose, and pancreatic hormones in rhesus monkeys
(Elsevier, 1983-04)
The effects of cholecystokinin on feeding, and on plasma glucose and pancreatic hormone responses to a mixed-meal were determined in lean rhesus monkeys. Following an overnight fast the octapeptide of cholecystokinin (CCK-8) ...
The antecedents of women's crack cocaine abuse: Family substance abuse, sexual abuse, depression and illicit drug use
(Elsevier, 1993)
Young African-American women are the fastest growing group of crack cocaine users in the United States. Despite this increase, relatively little is known about women who use crack cocaine and the possible reasons for their ...